Which external HDD to get for PCs?

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Thats what I always do. It works too.
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Not for me.Like I said, I am just powerless. :(

Wota wimp. It isnt hard to drive an aircraft carrier thru any bureaucracy.
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Nope.
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Hmm. Interesting.

Its just plain wrong, and there was a recent report in here of one that does it fine.
OK.
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No. That is a 2.5" drive, the Ultra is a 3.5" and it has no
HDD--you add your own.
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Ah. Hmm, I can't find any Ultra 3.5" ones on cdw.com. I guess that brand
is out. :(
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Interesting. Did Samsung just started making HDDs?
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They must have been at it for at least a few years because I
just discovered a 80 GB at work. I assume their drives were only
marketed to OEMs before recently. Don't some Dell desktops have
Samsungs in them ?

Their SpinPoint 166 run cool and are reasonably fast and quiet.
No major problems in my limited experience.
 
They must have been at it for at least a few years because I
just discovered a 80 GB at work. I assume their drives were only
marketed to OEMs before recently. Don't some Dell desktops have
Samsungs in them ?

Their SpinPoint 166 run cool and are reasonably fast and quiet.
No major problems in my limited experience.
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Weird that this was my first time I have seen Samsung make regular HDDs.
Is it rare?
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Previously Ant said:
On 10/3/2007 4:54 PM PT, Andre Majorel typed:
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Weird that this was my first time I have seen Samsung make regular HDDs.
Is it rare?
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Maybe it depends on geographic ares. Here the bare disks
have been available for at least 5 years at numerous
sources.

Arno
 
Ah. Hmm, I can't find any Ultra 3.5" ones on cdw.com. I guess that brand
is out. :(
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Then print out the item info from TigerDirect or Microcenter
and hand it to your boss. Tell him this is what the business
needs--and it is his job to get what the business needs (as
you do not have the authority to buy from sources that do
carry what is needed--as cdw does not carry it). If he
refuses, then get him to refuse your request in writing--and
keep it. Then buy whatever is the best (most expensive) from
cdw.

When it fails (which you expect to occur sooner rather than
later--based on reviews), you can pass the reason for the
failure onto your boss--because you requested, but were
denied, the authority to buy the not-expensive equipment the
business needed. Rather, you were required to buy from a
restricted/limited supplier who failed to carry what was
needed--and that restriction (which you tried to get
around--but was knowingly denied by management) caused the
problem.
 
Maybe it depends on geographic ares. Here the bare disks
have been available for at least 5 years at numerous
sources.
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I am in L.A., CA, USA. You?
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Then print out the item info from TigerDirect or Microcenter
and hand it to your boss. Tell him this is what the business
needs--and it is his job to get what the business needs (as
you do not have the authority to buy from sources that do
carry what is needed--as cdw does not carry it). If he refuses,
then get him to refuse your request in writing--and keep it.
Then buy whatever is the best (most expensive) from cdw.

When it fails (which you expect to occur sooner rather than
later--based on reviews), you can pass the reason for the
failure onto your boss--because you requested, but were
denied, the authority to buy the not-expensive equipment the
business needed. Rather, you were required to buy from a
restricted/limited supplier who failed to carry what was
needed--and that restriction (which you tried to get around--
but was knowingly denied by management) caused the problem.
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Ahh, you want him to speak up. Just what the humble submissive
worker ant with no skills of his own needs.
 
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